Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post

My favorite part was where it explains the mentality of many conspiracy theorists, monitored and fed by the "suggestion engines", as they called them.... and prompted to reach out to yet other conspiracy theorists until the whole thing becomes some kind of brainwashed feeding frenzy. Certainly would explain a lot of things you read around here.

Will probably be poo-pooed by those already addicted to and controlled by social media... which basically just drives the point even further.

Bottom line is, which was touched on toward the end, that basically parents have a huge role in offsetting the Machiavellian purposes of social media and their intended effect on young, impressionable minds.
Mind over matter may or may not be a part of this feeding frenzy you refer to; it seems over the past 20 years or less people are able to create a reality out of non-reality or out of possible reality; it is a scary thing and I wonder how much of this phenomenon is due to technology exacerbating it. You get a guy in Belgium saying he "believes" a hidden planet in our solar system will hit us, and then another guys "believes" that guy, and adds to it some semi-believable jibberish, and now it has compounded itself, and someone else writes a scathing rebuttal to it, but then THAT is used to try and "show" that there is a pushback, which is supposed to convince us that the pushback is FURTHER PROOF of the conspiracy....etc etc.... and it is an echo chamber of wishful thinking and creative thinking and it is boosted up by getting millions of views.... then the VIEWS are pointed to as further proof that the theory is actually true..... but NO, someone else says, because the views were ASSISTED by algorithms written by engineers who FAVORED and gave an advantage to the theory....

and you just dont know what the fuck to believe anymore.